Winners 2017

Best Investigation Award In Category (long Film Over 12 Minutes)

Governments in Algeria, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates used high-tech mass surveillance to monitor citizens. Western companies, including Britain’s largest weapons manufacturer, BAE, were among those selling surveillance technology to aforementioned governments. Human rights organizations question whether a British company ought to be selling such equipment, much of it classified, to repressive regimes.

Best Investigation Award In Category (short Film Between 8-12 Minutes)

Documented how ownership papers and chassis numbers on Libyan cars were forged and modified to turn them into seeming Egyptian vehicles. Smugglers and car merchants dealing in scrap cars were exposed colluding with mechanics and officials to finalize a system that put Egyptians behind the wheel of dangerous vehicles.

Certificate Of Appreciation

The investigation documented eight student services centers violating their licensing terms by selling research papers to students, all of which escaped the weak oversight by the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Best Written Investigations Award

Loopholes had to be published under alias bylines and showed traffickers exploiting a lack of electronic surveillance, including eye and fingerprint scans at Egyptian and Greek airports to smuggle out people.
In the “Marital Rape” investigation, Aya Nabil showed how Egyptian women cannot ask for divorce on the basis of marital rape, due to courts failing to acknowledge such complaints. Instead they must ask for “khulu”, a divorce that deprives them of all rights.

Best Multimedia Report Award

The AP team documented the beating of nearly 2,000 Yemeni detainees with wires and were kept in filthy shipping containers, and blindfolded for months by an American counterterrorism ally. The search for Al-Qaeda militants has led to a network of secret prisons run by the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.